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Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR homes out that way live. Even with air conditioning it is unbearable out there most of the time. This is a real good way to discourage the tourist trade that we worry wor-ry so much about. So for the record, we think the money would be well spent. I'm so glad that we have people like you who see these things in our town and bring them to our attention. Thanks Mr. Rollo. Fern and Farrell Erickson Dear Editor: In Rollo-Glyphics this past week you threw out a suggestion sug-gestion to use funds from the sale of the El Escalante Hotel for the construction of an adequate ad-equate sewage treatment facility fac-ility in Cedar City. Whether or not this is a practical suggestion from a financial point of view, I wish to applaud the implication implica-tion that there may be unexplored unex-plored ways of doing something some-thing NOW about a pollution problem right here in our community. I feel that it would be helpful help-ful if we who live here would consider how deep our concern con-cern is and whether we care enough to get behind an AC-, AC-, TION NOW program of sewage sew-age construction. Pollution is ! a national problem but it will not be solved on a national scale unless each and every local community is willing to clean up its own backyard. We should ask ourselves E whether we are willing to pay the price perhaps in the i form of a sewer tax or some other revenue-producing tax i to protect the health and welfare of residents here now. i Further, it is our obligation to leave an unpolluted water i source for generations that will follow. i I would think that the city , fathers would welcome a genuine expression of ur-, ur-, gency and backing from their constituents, as well a.s some , practical suggestions for ac- complishment, such as your , own. Sincerely, i Loraine Juvelin i . ! DEAR EDITOR: We read with interest your suggestion for using some of the money from the sale of i the El Escalante to modern- ize our sewer system. Since Farrell is employed at I the air port we go that way ' real often. I really wonder ! how the people who own |